nightstand

Example Sentences

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Leave a book on the nightstand and the phone in the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

The pain in my forehead was sharp, as if I had just slammed it against the nightstand.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2024

A discarded mattress leaned against a tree, with a nightstand nearby.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2024

She went to her parents' bedroom where Carty found $1,100 in U.S. dollars in her mother’s nightstand.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2024

On her nightstand, her clock glowed green, the numbers already inching toward the time she had to get up for school, but she had a good hour at least.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake